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Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by durnygbur »

viach wrote: post #288
sleavey wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same problems with the private home rental market. If someone can figure out how to match good tenants with good landlords in a way that is hard to scam and respects privacy, they would make a lot of money.

This assumes there is a lot of good players, tenants and landlords and they are just waiting for a good app which will let them find each other finally. From my experience, this market is conflict driven, there is no such thing as good landlord and good tenant.

I'm a professional earning 1.5-2.5 the average national salary. I'm moving abroad to a new city and ready to pay 20-30% of my net salary on rent. I'm paying the rent and media regularly on time and the deposit on move in. I demand apartment in the price range 5-15 EUR/m^2 per month, in comfortable standard, and the full deposit back on move out.

What invalidates me as a good tenant?

Then given my requirements above, each time dealing with rental market in any even marginally desirable city in EU, it's like being hit by a train driving at full speed...

Sure it's better to rent short term to some banana youngsters from Germany, Scandinavia or other rich countries, who come over to get wasted and get free sex, then to wreck the place. Yet it's me - a person from post-Communist country, so perceived as poor, who have a bad reputation.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by Gibbon1 »

sleavey wrote: post #280
flir wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Srsly, somebody needs to fix this I've lost count of the number of devs I've spoken to, over multiple decades, who are convinced recruitment is ripe for disruption. I'm sure everyone else has the same experience. And yet, recruitment's still here, more or less unchanged. At this point I'm pretty sure recruitment has always been terrible, and will always be terrible. There's some perverse incentive buried deep in th…

Same problems with the private home rental market. If someone can figure out how to match good tenants with good landlords in a way that is hard to scam and respects privacy, they would make a lot of money.

My dad is friends with a a couple of small time landlords and rents two houses himself.

They all have stories like this. I was desperate needed to rent the place and the against my better judgement rented to this this family with no nothing. Ten years later they move out and I do the walk through and the place is spotless.

Rent another place to two lawyers with spotless credit and references and 18 months later they ghost. Break the locks and go in and.. The roof leaked. For a long time. Moldy sheet rock. Holes in the walls and literal shit ground into the carpets.

Good luck with disruption.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by seszett »

durnygbur wrote: post #291
viach wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This assumes there is a lot of good players, tenants and landlords and they are just waiting for a good app which will let them find each other finally. From my experience, this market is conflict driven, there is no such thing as good landlord and good tenant.

I'm a professional earning 1.5-2.5 the average national salary. I'm moving abroad to a new city and ready to pay 20-30% of my net salary on rent. I'm paying the rent and media regularly on time and the deposit on move in. I demand apartment in the price range 5-15 EUR/m^2 per month, in comfortable standard, and the full deposit back on move out. What invalidates me as a good tenant? Then given my requirements above,…

> Yet it's me - a person from post-Communist country, so perceived as poor, who have a bad reputation.

Honestly, I have had the same issues as a Frenchman in France, in Canada and in Belgium. I don't think it's really (or not only at least) tied to your country of origin being formerly communist or poor.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by wyclif »

OJFord wrote: post #289
cookiengineer wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were trying to recruit via LinkedIn for our startup but soon realized what a shitty business model LinkedIn has. We had to pay around ~5,00EUR for each and every click on "Apply" to our job posting, which doesn't mean they even filled out the form. And now, where LinkedIn is full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) we had costs for a "Local Area" limited job post…

> full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) (I'm not Indian but) the non-racist way to say that is 'full of scammers', since the scammers' nationality has nothing to do with your distaste for their behaviour.

No, that's still not quite right. While it removes considerations of race from the comment, it also removes context since it makes it sound as if the scamming is equally distributed globally when everyone knows it isn't.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by wyclif »

flir wrote: post #264
cookiengineer wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were trying to recruit via LinkedIn for our startup but soon realized what a shitty business model LinkedIn has. We had to pay around ~5,00EUR for each and every click on "Apply" to our job posting, which doesn't mean they even filled out the form. And now, where LinkedIn is full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) we had costs for a "Local Area" limited job post…

> Srsly, somebody needs to fix this I've lost count of the number of devs I've spoken to, over multiple decades, who are convinced recruitment is ripe for disruption. I'm sure everyone else has the same experience. And yet, recruitment's still here, more or less unchanged. At this point I'm pretty sure recruitment has always been terrible, and will always be terrible. There's some perverse incentive buried deep in th…

Pretty much share that sense of despair and assessment of the industry. When Aline Lerner started doing things, I was really behind her, hoping she would succeed in changing the game. But I think you're right that it's just a lot harder than even the smartest people realise.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by sgc »

OJFord wrote: post #289
cookiengineer wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were trying to recruit via LinkedIn for our startup but soon realized what a shitty business model LinkedIn has. We had to pay around ~5,00EUR for each and every click on "Apply" to our job posting, which doesn't mean they even filled out the form. And now, where LinkedIn is full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) we had costs for a "Local Area" limited job post…

> full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) (I'm not Indian but) the non-racist way to say that is 'full of scammers', since the scammers' nationality has nothing to do with your distaste for their behaviour.

If all your scammers are from one geographical location halfway across the world, it is fine to refer to it and you shouldn't be shamed for naming it. Lest we police ourselves into ignorance.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by OJFord »

sgc wrote: post #296
OJFord wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) (I'm not Indian but) the non-racist way to say that is 'full of scammers', since the scammers' nationality has nothing to do with your distaste for their behaviour.

If all your scammers are from one geographical location halfway across the world, it is fine to refer to it and you shouldn't be shamed for naming it. Lest we police ourselves into ignorance.

And if all the immigrants you don't like are from the same place?

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by botwriter »

durnygbur wrote: post #291
viach wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This assumes there is a lot of good players, tenants and landlords and they are just waiting for a good app which will let them find each other finally. From my experience, this market is conflict driven, there is no such thing as good landlord and good tenant.

I'm a professional earning 1.5-2.5 the average national salary. I'm moving abroad to a new city and ready to pay 20-30% of my net salary on rent. I'm paying the rent and media regularly on time and the deposit on move in. I demand apartment in the price range 5-15 EUR/m^2 per month, in comfortable standard, and the full deposit back on move out. What invalidates me as a good tenant? Then given my requirements above,…

Not sure where you're looking for a property but a lot of eastern Europeans countries are seen as hubs for organised crime.

I remember being told by a Bulgarian I used to work with that he tried to avoid other Bulgarians here in the UK because so many were involved in organised crime.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by sgc »

nicbou wrote: post #277
JGM_io wrote: post #267

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Very cool trick! Wonder if Europe has this as well. For email I use JGM.io (my own domain). If I see that address being used elsewhere I know who's being a bad boy

Gmail let's you add tags to your email like firstnamelastname+linkedin@gmail.com. This is really useful for such purposes.

I would have thought most everybody serious about exploiting your data would be rewriting this type of email at this point.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by XenophileJKO »

catalogia wrote: post #190
crazygringo wrote: post #159

I've used plenty of software before that offers to do something based on clipboard contents, often when there isn't even anywhere to paste. E.g. a phone dialer app that asks if you want to dial the number in the clipboard when you start it, an image editor that asks if I want to create a new image size the dimensions of the clipboard, a torrenting program that when I choose to import a torrent automatically grabs it…

Negligence from a trillion dollar corporation is a form of malice. They have the money to audit their products for quality and privacy issues. Instead they choose to not give a shit unless the media calls them out (and sometimes not even then.)

I feel like many of the people that has this opinion never worked at a big company in a big code base. It's probably a poorly coded feature from an intern that was left in because it had some value but operated in a way it shouldn't. Nobody is ever going to touch it until something like this happens. Then someone will go. "Oh shit we better fix this. Tell the product manager feature x is delayed so we can fix this shit storm."
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